The Hill -Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (D) called on Democrats to support single-payer healthcare, an issue Ellison believes can heal rifts in the party ahead of the 2020 presidential election... Ellison said that the movement around "Medicare-for-all" was slowly ascending in the Democratic Party.
Former Democratic 2016 candidate and progressive stalwart Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), tweeted his support for Ellison this week. Sanders, a longtime supporter of Medicare-for-all, made single-payer healthcare a central focus of his 2016 presidential run. The issue is now supported by a majority of the House Democratic Caucus
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The only reason Democrats are talking up single-payer, the plan the public has always favored, and their historically-popular neoliberal Peace Prize-winner refused to take up, is they're some hundreds of miles away from being able to enact such policy.
Therefore, it's a safe topic, suitable for gathering in gullible voters.
The next presidential election is 2+ years away. If they're talking about it through the primaries and at the convention, then it *might* be real. Until then, it's bollocks.
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